A/HRC/39/CRP.2 detention.1291 An interviewee from Maungdaw, explained how Tatmadaw soldiers would come to the market or village and simply arrest whomever they found, take them to the police station, and then ask money from the family for their release. 1292 An interviewee from Buthidaung also shared the following account: If we wanted to change anything in the house, we had to pay. Our family had to change two bamboo poles in the railing of our house. When the NaSaKa officers heard the sound of repair, they came and asked for money.1293 618. Sometimes payments were made, but the issue remained unresolved. One interviewee explained that his brother paid 100,000 Kyat to the NaSaKa to obtain his marriage authorisation but it was not issued. He was later detained for five years for not having a permit. 1294Another interviewee explained how he was detained at a police station and the police officer said he would be released if he paid a large bribe. However, although he paid, he was not released.1295 619. The amounts extracted from the Rohingya are exorbitant compared to their revenue. It adversely affects their right to an adequate standard of living, including to food and livelihood, and to health and dignity. It often leads to unbreakable cycles of debt, household impoverishment and desperate coping mechanisms: The police said that if we couldn’t give them 350,000 Kyat, I would be put in prison. My mother had to arrange the money. She sold our land to ensure my release.1296 (c) Sexual and gender-based violence 620. There are credible and consistent reports of sexual and gender-based violence against Rohingya women and girls by members of the Tatmadaw, the police and the NaSaKa.1297 The experience shared by one interviewee illustrates the prevalence of such acts, even outside the periods of extreme violence in 2012, 2016 and 2017: I was taken to a large government building next to the high school in Maungdaw. There were many police officers. I was taken to a room where there were already about 10 other Rohingya women. Men in uniform took away women in groups of four and then I heard screaming. I think they were being raped. I heard girls saying, “Oh Allah, save me” and “please don’t rape me”. Other women were giving massages to men from various security forces, not just the police. It was humiliating. If a girl was not massaging, she was hit by the police. It was very weird because the place was like an office but all of this was happening there. I saw girls with bite marks on their cheeks, and one fully naked girl running away. I managed to escape through a very small hole1298. 621. This is consistent with other credible reports published throughout the years. For example, a report of the United Nations Secretary-General on conflict-related sexual violence noted in 2012 that rape was condoned by military commanders.1299 Examples of reported sexual violence include the rape of 13 Rohingya girls and women by NaSaKa forces in northern Maungdaw Township on 20 February 2013; the gang rape of a 16-year old Rohingya girl by police in early 2014; 14 cases of gang rape and sexual assault between January and June 2014;1300 and the rape of a 10-year old girl by the military in early 2015.1301 1291 1292 1293 1294 1295 1296 1297 1298 1299 A/66/657*–S/2012/33*. 1300 S/2015/203, p. 12 K-125 1301 146 CI-062, CI-065, CI-069, CI-072, CI-073, CI-082, CI-090, CI-092, CI-094, CI-100, CI-133, CI-134, CI-136, CI-144, CI-146, CI-149, CI-179, CI-181, CI-183, CI-186, CI-189, CI-190, DI-010, DI-020, DI-025, DI-026, DI-037, DI-038, DI-046, DI-050, ZI-002. DI-025. DI-010. CI-064. DI-037. DI-025. CI-074, CI-077, CI-174, DI-038, DI-048, DI-050. DI-048.